Category: Pre Mid-2011

Trade forces rethink on retailers

WORRIED tackle suppliers have forced the organisers of this year’s EFTTEX show in London to shelve controversial plans to allow retailers to exhibit.A survey by the Angling Trade Association and Tackle & Guns revealed that many in the UK industry were unhappy that such a proposal had originally been given the go ahead in the […]

Fisheries section

DON’T forgot that Total-Fishing has an excellent Fisheries section with latest form added to many of the venues on a regular basis. Venues with form recently added include – Browning Cudmore, Moorlands Farm, Woodland View, Larford Lakes, the River Severn, Sherwood Farm Fishery, Woodland View and Springwood Fishery.There are many more fisheries listed than that […]

Fish O Mania Dates

24th April,  Woodlands View , Droitwich, Worcs28th April,  Barford Lakes, Norwich, Norfolk8th May Grand Union Canal, Milton Keynes22nd May, Lawn Farm Fishery, Elsworth, Cambs29th May, Royal Military Canal, Hythe30th Willow Park Fishery, Ash Vale, Hants5th June Lakeview Fisheries, Melton Mwbray, Leics13th June Browning Cudmore, Whitmore, Staffs19th June Basingstoke Canal, Hants20th June Carr Mill Dam, St […]

Midland Angler

THE latest issue of Midland Angler, the only newspaper exclusively for anglers in the heart of England, inculdes some quite brilliant tips from Roy Marlow on how to fish popped-up, hair rigged bread on commercial waters. Using two consistencies of bread, he shows how you can vary the rate the bread sinks through the water to create […]

Castle Ashby TF meet…

Report by Pebsit (Phil ‘I might look like Andy Findlay but I can’t fish like him’ Stone) TWENTY one Total-Fishing matchmen met up at Castle Ashby on January 2nd for what was to be a gruelling 5 hours of fishing. There was no wind, all was calm and still and obviously even the fish couldn’t be […]

Total Sea Fishing

SHOREGet Down To The DowniesJohn Findlay Follows top Scottish match angler Alan Combe during a roving match in search of cod.The Snake CharmersThere’s always a chance that you’ll hook into a conger while fishing for cod, as Terry Thomas finds out.Chancing It At ChesilDave Barham visits Chesil Beach in Dorset – Boy, what a session.Amazing […]

Bala New Year Extravaganza

AN intrepid band of internet brothers from Anglingforums and Total-Fishing joined up for a New Year Match on Bala.The idea of this match was first started on both site’s forums but despite fearing the worst weather Bala Lake could throw at them, the brave anglers went ahead with their plans on the 3rd January.Mark Turner had flown […]

Cormorant breakthrough?

THERE may be light at the end of the tunnel for fishery owners and clubs whose waters have been plagued by fish munching cormorants for years.Under a bizarre European ruling which most experts accept was a mistake, the thriving Carbo Sinensis species of cormorant which is now very common in the UK is a protected species. […]

Crabtree cartoons discovered

A HANDFUL of original strips of the classic angling cartoon Mr Crabtree Goes Fishing have been found by a Daily Mirror journalist at the paper’s London offices. It had been thought that all of Bernard Venables drawing had been destroyed in the 1940s, until they turned up in a clear out of drawers. The lucky […]